Guide on Editing Zenmuse X5X5R 4K videos to Premiere Pro

24. October 2015

Summary: If you are looking for a fast and fluid workflow of Zenmuse X5/X5R 4K video with Premiere Pro, the following guide will show you how to import Zenmuse X5/X5R 4K videos to Premiere
with MPG codec.

Zenmuse X5 and ZENMUSE X5R announced by Drone maker DJI are capable of capturing 4K video at 30fps or still 16MP photographers. After recording 4K footage, users may plan to transfer Zenmuse
X5X5R videos to Premiere or other NLEs for further editing. This article will discuss how to edit Zenmuse X5X5R 4K videos in Premiere Pro (CC/CS6/CS5) without any trouble.

Since the 4K MP4 or MOV format captured with Zenmuse X5/X5R is not the native editing format for Premiere, you will inevitably meet some unexpected problems such as audio tracks missing or file
not importing, etc. In order to bypass such issues, you'd better encode Zenmuse X5X5R 4K to Premiere Pro friendly formats like MPEG-2 with a powerful third party program.

Fortunately, there are some application such as Brorsoft Video
Converter for Mac help you to directly output Zenmuse X5/X5R to Premiere optimized MPEG-2 format with all the profile parameters well setup. Moverover, it offers optmized codecs for other
NLEs such as Apple ProRes, DNxND, AIC for FCP, Avid, iMovie .etc. Get the Windows version, if you also wanna open Zenmuse X5X5R 4K videos in Premiere on PC. Now, download the software on computer and follow the guide below
to start conversion.

How to Import Zenmuse X5X5R 4K files to Premiere Pro

Step 1. Install and launch the program on your Mac. Click "Add" button to load the source 4K Zenmuse X5X5R files. (Or you can drag & drop the original files to the software's window
list.)